Giving and transferring

Synonyms for win

The synonym for win recorded in this bank is gain, in the sense "win something through one's efforts". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for win

gainverb, in the sense "win something through one's efforts"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day win is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 1, FoothillsGiving and transferring

win something through one's efforts

Win someone's confidence and friendship.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

gain

Same sentence, swapped: Gain someone's confidence and friendship.

Close but different

Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.

lose
buy
turn

Where win turns up in the game

win is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where win is the trap

succeedverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is follow, in the sense "be the successor (of)", and win is on the board beside it.

Play win

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so win reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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Closest first: other giving and transferring words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

rentverbtakeengage for service under a term of contractFoothills sponsorverbfinanceto provide financial support for an event, project, or personFoothillsHas a reason line surrenderverbdeliverrelinquish possession or control overFoothillsHas a reason line tithenouncontributiona portion of income given, traditionally a tenth, especially to a churchFoothillsHas a reason line cedeverbyieldto give up possession or control of something, typically unwillinglyTreelineHas a reason line changeverbexchangegive to, and receive from, one anotherFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line charitableadjectivegenerousgenerous in giving to those in needFoothillsHas a reason line directadjectiveexactlacking compromising or mitigating elementsFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line

Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. win carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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